Chapter 28: Liam P.O.V

There was something wrong with her. From the second I had pulled my fangs out of her beautiful shoulder I could feel the darkness lingering in my mouth, the way her blood tasted tainted with the darkness. Over the years of training, she has become one of the very best fighters in the pack and her blood has definitely landed in my mouth before, normally it had a sweet rose taste but now with her wolf it was tainted with the metallic taste. I pulled my brother Lucas to the side, "What the hell is wrong with our mate?" I asked him, my nails digging into hsi shoulder while I glared at him. He looked behind us, the way Levi and Aurora walked was interesting, she has always been bigger than the other girls but we were Alpha's so she still tiny compared to the three of us. That wasn't the interesting part though. The interesting part is the way our terrifying and dominanting brother was suddenly the most the love-sick and gentle wolf that I have ever seen. Holding her against his chest and checking his every step before he ever takes it.

"I don't know what you're talking about dear brother." Lucas looked back at me, concerned btu also trying his hardest not to disclose hwo eh is actually feeling about the sudden new mate. The truth is all three of us have been thrown in for a loop with the dmamage her parents have done to her and the entirety of the pack with their torture techniques.

"You know exactly what I am talking about." I glared at him, walking forward towrads our childhood home. We needed to get her somewhere safe, somewhere nobody could have access to her besides mom. Mom could help her thorugh this, at least that's what I'm hoping. I'm nto really sure who helped Levi through his darkness, it's not somethign that we discussed. One minute he was lost between his wolf trying hsi hardest to kill him and make Levi think he isn't worht beign an Alpha, then we were at war and he was kidnapped. The brother that we got when he escaped and made it back home was not the same brother that left us, that was taken. The brother that returned was a weapon to be used, he had controlled his wolf but now they worked in sync with each other, his wolf is blood thirsty when at his nicest and a monster at his worst but they work startegically now.

"No. I don't." Lucas said non-chalantly. His relaxed demeanor was one of my least favorite things about my brother, he didn't hyperfocus on things the way that Levia and I both did, and it would make our jobs alot easier if he did. Insteda of having the job of Alpha dispersed evenly between the three of us, the job is constantly re-evaluating whatever tasks that we ahve given our lusty brother and triple checking it before proceeding to do our own jobs and it isn't always as simple as re-printing a paper and signing off the correct box.

"Why do you think our mate's blood tasted so metallicy?" I asked, letting the air around us dampen with the truth. The truth is we met our mate during a time when she has desperately needed us, both her wolf and her. The truth on the matter is that I now she has some weird connection with Levi that neither us of could ever comprehend. He understands her ebcause of whatever he saw while he was a war prisoner and then her because of the abuse she suffered at teh hands of her parents.

"She's been through a lot, Liam. Maybe some of the abuse that she suffered from her parent's changed her wolf a little." Lucas shrugegd, trying to make it sounde like he wasn't worried about her, but he is. I can tell. I know he's worried because the answer was already prepared, eh ahs already thought about the way her blood tasted and he thought about the possibel side affects of what her parents have been doign to her for years.

We had finally came up to a clearing when she finally woke up, Levi had set her down on a log when she stared back at him and whispered something. I wasn't paying nearly enough attention, it's draining always trying to figure out the reaons behing everybodies behaviors. I coudl feel teh tug in my mind from my brother's, they wanted to open up the link really quick.

'what's up Levi?' I asked curious about what my brotehr didn't want to say infront of her.

'She wants to talk to the three of us and I have no clue what but please don't scare her.' Levi warned, my wolf rolled her eyes at the warning.

'Like we want to scare off our mate.' I snapped back at him and glared.

'You know what I mean. She's going through somethign and it's different than a normal wolf between the abuse and finding her mate's.' Levi tried to find a way to let us in on it gently liek we didn't already know, of course we knew.

'Levi we know she has some sort of darkness to her wolf if it's from trauma I dont know.' Lucas snapped, his wolf comign through his voice.

When I finally was able to get the trhee of us to be calm enough to figure out what Aurora wanted she looked downright tired and scared, everything that we wanted to avoid making her feel. Great. Lucas walked over to her, his leg flush against hers while he looked at her, taking in all of her features. I know what he is doing, he is preparing incase she decided that she can't handle this. Levi had squatted down in front of her so she could be eye level with her and I went put my hand on her shoulder to let her know that I support her, that I'm here for just her.

"There's a darkness to my wolf and she tried to kill me tonight and she almost succeeded." Aurora whispered, her voice was barelya bove a whisper. Alright, those weren't her exact words but they might as well have been. Her wolf is trying to kill her, what does her wolf get out of killing them? Our Alpha aura's raidated over each other, I could feel the wall my claws were extending the fight within msyelf to control my wolf.

'She won, it's okay. She's strong.' I argued with my wolf fighting to take control and permanently mark her. In his mind that is the only way to keep her safe,I'm not reallys ure how that work's he wouldn't share that.

'She's not okay, she need's our mark. We have to keep her safe or we are all lost.' My wolf agrued back. Nothing he has said since she becam eour mate made much sense, it felt like he had missing puzzle pieces to the full picture and it was really annoying.

'Can I be here for her just for now, our mate need's us.' I argued trying to gain the tiniest bit of an upperhand on the conversation. My wolf nodded and when I looked back, both my brother's had the same problem but this time Levi has been the most in control of himself. I would have never thought in a million years that my brother teh wild card would the wolf in control around our mate presenting her own wolf as a potential danger to her wolf.

"I know, princess. I know you have a darkness to your wolf and i know that she is drawn to me." Levi whispered,stroking her cheek. I loved watchign the wya her face tinted red fromt he small little touches. Each one of us affected her in a completely different way and I adored watching it.

"We need to get you inside where it's safe rory." Lucas stated, his hand squeezed her naked thigh. I wish that was where my hands were. Her perfect creamy thighs and perfect body. She nodded her head and Lucas lifted her off the log before Levi even had a chance to make the move, his upbeat sweet smile that he saved just for her returned with he rmurderous glare that he gave the back of my brother's head.

Until he heard her giggle.